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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"literacy behaviors"”.
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Measuring early literacy behaviors: preschool-age children and first-generation Mexican immigrant parents
… sound quantitative measurement of parent early literacy behaviors, designed for Spanish speaking families. This study describes the need for and the development of a questionnaire completed by parents. A pilot test of the Emergent Literacy Behavior Questionnaire (ELBQ) provided preliminary …
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Observations of Emergent Literary Behaviors in a Literacy-Enriched Play Environment: Does Teacher Guidance Make a Difference?
… whether there are differences in emergent literacy behaviors between a teacher guided literacy-enriched play environment and a literacy-enriched play environment without teacher guidance. This study occurred over a five week period. During the first week, base-line data were collected using …
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An Investigation of the Use and Effect of Literacy in Industrial Technology Curricula
… and (b) to describe the differences in the way literacy is applied in The Parke System curriculum and traditional industrial technology curriculum. Data were collected from informal reading inventories, student interviews, and teacher interviews. The focal group consisted of nine eighth grade …
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Exploring the Digital Literacy Divide Among American Teens: Influences of Parent Education, Gender and Race
… gender and race with U.S. teenagers’ high-risk behaviors, positive behaviors and self-efficacy when it comes to digital literacy. The analysis found a statistically significant effect of gender, race, and parental education on high-risk behaviors, positive behaviors and self-efficacy. Notably, …
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The Nature of the Impact of a Reading Tutoring Program on Participating Students in the Classroom: A Qualitative Study
… on participating fifth grade at-risk students' literacy behaviors in the classroom.The researcher served in the role of passive participant observer during the scheduled language arts period three days per week in the participating students' classroom for a period of twenty-three weeks. Field …
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Three Essays on Econometric Modeling and Application: Health and Consumer Behaviors
… of my dissertation, I analyze the individual behaviors including health (vaccination and preventive care) and consumer (financial literacy) behaviors and the corresponding interventions by nonlinear econometric modeling. In the first chapter, I suggest an appropriate econometric model that …